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With swarms of Iranian drones breaching U.S. air defenses and striking across the Middle East, the Trump administration reportedly asked Ukraine to help counter the threat, leveraging Kyiv’s years of experience fending off similar drone attacks to bolster a broader counterdrone effort.
President Donald Trump reached out to Kurdish minority leaders in Iran and neighboring Iraq, offering U.S. support to insurgent efforts against Tehran as Washington weighs further actions and faces potential U.S. casualties.
The Senate rejected a war-powers resolution designed to block Trump from ordering more Iran strikes, the eighth such vote since June, as Democrats and Sen. Rand Paul urged Republicans to break ranks and reassert Congress’s authority over war.
President Trump directs military strikes on Iran while facing online opposition from leading MAGA voices, including Tucker Carlson, who says the move is Israel’s war and not America’s; White House officials push back to defend the action as aligned with the administration’s America First approach.
Israel conducts fresh strikes on Iran while Tehran’s forces retaliate across the Persian Gulf and Lebanon, deepening a regional war. Iran’s leadership succession debate intensifies as Khamenei’s funeral is delayed; U.S. evacuations and embassy closures expand across the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The United States says it is conducting 24/7 strikes into Iran, and six U.S. service members were killed in a weekend drone attack, highlighting the conflict’s widening toll.
Israel says it has launched fresh strikes on targets in Iran and Lebanon as Hezbollah drones hit Israel, while Iran and its allies claim retaliatory strikes across the region. The conflict is in its fourth day, with at least six U.S. service members killed and Americans urged to depart the Middle East; satellite imagery and reports describe damage to Iran’s nuclear sites, and cross‑border actions continue including attacks on cloud and other facilities in the Gulf. An expanding regional crisis broadens the fight beyond the initial theaters.
Widening conflict with Iran has effectively halted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, triggering a surge in crude prices and risking higher gas costs and broader inflation as markets react to the disruption.
The Middle East crisis escalates after a U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran, with Hezbollah launching rockets and drones at Israel from Lebanon, Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon, Iranian attacks on Gulf states, a drone strike on a U.K. base in Cyprus, and rising casualties including three U.S. service members, as oil prices surge and the region braces for a prolonged confrontation.
President Trump's major attack on Iran has unsettled parts of the GOP coalition, exposing fault lines between hawkish foreign policy voices and war-weary conservatives, potentially complicating the party's post-Trump identity as midterm elections approach.
The State Department authorized nonemergency staff and families at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem to leave Israel, warning they should act while commercial flights are available as tensions with Iran threaten retaliation against Israel and U.S. forces in the region.
The Trump administration extended the USS Gerald R. Ford’s deployment and sent the carrier to the Middle East to press Iran for a new nuclear deal, a move occurring as the ship has been at sea for months and will cross the Atlantic again despite Navy warnings that it needs maintenance.
As the U.S. increases its military presence in the Persian Gulf, Gulf states warn that Iran's missile program remains capable of striking U.S. bases and troops, with munitions reaching more than a dozen bases and tens of thousands of personnel.
Witness accounts cited by The Washington Post say Iranian security forces gunned down dozens of protesters trying to escape a blaze at Rasht's bazaar during Iran's nationwide uprising, following days of protests and shop closures.
Deep divisions within Iran's opposition, including leader Reza Pahlavi, hinder unified calls for change as security forces mount a ferocious crackdown on anti-government protests sweeping the country, a crisis that has reached levels not seen in years.
Trump expressed support for Iran’s anti-government protesters, saying help is on the way and warning the regime will pay a heavy price, as rights group HRANA estimates more than 2,000 people have been killed in the crackdown since protests began in late December; demonstrations in Tehran have persisted amid economic turmoil.